A lot of creative snowmen have been appearing around the county, and judging from the forecast for the next few days, their time on this cold, cold Earth may soon come to an end.

Before he melts away, snap your snowman's picture and email it to newsroom@bcdemocrat.com for our snowman photo contest. The photo with the most online votes by Tuesday at noon will win a free classified ad (for the submitter, not the snowman himself).

Photos will be posted as soon as we start receiving them.

Votes can be sent to newsroom@bcdemocrat.com, or, for Facebook users, each "like" for each snowman's photo counts as one vote.